Microsoft's Secret Weapon for M365 Admins: A 10x Faster Bulk Operations Tool

On this episode of Entra Chat, I was thrilled to sit down with Yanyan and Sweta from the Entra UI experience team to dive deep into a feature that many of us have used but is now getting a massive refresh: Bulk Operations. We talked about how they took a critical legacy tool and completely re-engineered it for insane performance and scale, making it more reliable than ever. You’ll hear about some amazing new capabilities, like customizing the columns in your CSV exports and using UPNs instead of just Object IDs to add users, which is a huge time-saver. We even get a behind-the-scenes look at the engineering that makes it possible to export over a million groups in just 10 minutes!Subscribe with your favorite podcast player or watch on YouTube 👇About Yanyan JuYanyan Ju is a Principal Engineer Manager at Microsoft, where she is dedicated to delivering the best administrative experience for Microsoft customers. She focuses on creating value through user-friendly and consistent admin interfaces, shaping the future of AI-powered Entra Admin UX, and leading as part of a UX Engineering Center of Excellence.* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanyan-ju-194545239/About Sweta KumariSweta Kumari is a Product Manager at Microsoft, focusing on identity and access management within Microsoft Entra. Sweta leads initiatives around Entra Admin feature enhancements, Customer feedback integration and Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Her work emphasizes improving user experience, and ensuring secure, compliant access for customers.* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sweta-kumari-557478127/🔗 Related Links* Bulk operations in Microsoft Entra ID (Preview) - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/bulk-operations📗 Chapters00:01:20 What is Bulk Operations? 00:03:40 Supported Bulk Operations 00:06:34 Customizing Your Exports 00:08:45 How is it different from PowerShell? 00:11:29 Adding Members in Bulk (The Easy Way) 00:13:56 Bulk Deleting Safely 00:16:12 Why Was The Feature Rebuilt? 00:19:05 The Engineering Overhaul 00:23:02 Insane Performance Gains 00:25:19 How to Share Your FeedbackPodcast Apps🎙️ Entra.Chat - https://entra.chat🎧 Apple Podcast → https://entra.chat/apple📺 YouTube → https://entra.chat/youtube📺 Spotify → https://entra.chat/spotify🎧 Overcast → https://entra.chat/overcast🎧 Pocketcast → https://entra.chat/pocketcast🎧 Others → https://entra.chat/rssMerill’s socials📺 YouTube → youtube.com/@merillx👔 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/merill🐤 Twitter → twitter.com/merill🕺 TikTok → tiktok.com/@merillf🦋 Bluesky → bsky.app/profile/merill.net🐘 Mastodon → infosec.exchange/@merill🧵 Threads → threads.net/@merillf🤖 GitHub → github.com/merill Get full access to Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra at entra.news/subscribe